Attaching loop for clotheslines, cables, etc.



Dec. 15, 1931. F E BANKWITZ ATTACHING LOOP FOR CLOTHESLINES, CABLES ETC Filed March 12, 1951 Patented Dec. 1 5, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FREDERICK E. BANKWITZ, OF PARKERSBURG,

wns'r vmemxanssrenon TO MAGIC CLOTHES LINE COMPANY, INC., OF PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA ATTACHING- LOOP FOR CLOTHESLIN ES, CABLES, ETC.

Application filed March 12, 1931.' Serial No. 522,039.

My invention relates to metal loops for clothes line or cable or wire ends that are placed over suitable hooks, such lines or cables being under more or less tension.

The invention consists of a loop that is open at the ends and has a gutter in its outer periphery within which the line or cable is assembled.

A loop of this nature is old, but its perimeter has been unbroken, and when a clothes line or cable has been passed around the same within the gutter, the free end of such cable or line has to be secured to the main body by special fasteners, since, if such end were coiled around the main line, the tension on the latter would cause the coils to be relaxed and the line would then pull loose from the loop.

It is the object of this invention to prevent this defect and to decrease the cost of the loop fastening.

Of course, in the case of cables or wire, the end portion can readily be twisted or coiled around the main line at the open ends of the loop, but in the instance of a clothes line, the latter must be of a special construction such as is shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,659,556, issued to me February 21, 1928, such construction comprising a metal core covered with a rubber compound, and when clothes line is mentioned herein, I refer to such special construction.

In the accompanying drawings, which is to be read as a part of this description, I have illustrated the invention in connection with a clothes line, and, referring to the drawin gs, 1

Figure 1 is a View showing a clothes line as it appears with the loop secured thereto-- Figure 2 is a View of such line taken at right angles to that shown at Figure 1-' Figure 3 is a section at line 3-3 of Figure 2, and

Figure t is a detail perspective of the loop.

Similar numerals of reference will be used to designate like of the drawings.

1 is a metal loop having in its outer periphery a gutter 2, the ends of the loop being slightly spaced apart.

3 is a metal cord and rubber covered clothes line one or both of whose ends are wrapped around such a loop within such a gutter, and it will be obvious that, if the free end of the line were coiled around the main line, as shown in the drawings, the tension on the line would shortly cause the coils 1 to loosen and uncoil and the main line to pull loose from the loop.

The sole feature of the present invention consists in forming perforations 5 and 6 in one or both sides of the loop through the gutter, and threading the line from the outside of the gutter through the other perforations, as 6, to the outside of the loop within the gutter, the free end of the line then being tightly formed into coils 4 around the main line.

By reference to Figures 1 and 3, it will be seen that this threading of the end of the line will effectively clamp the latter against detachment from the loop, and the free end of the line is then coiled around the main line to present a neat finish, and while this coiling will absolutely prevent the pulling loose of the main line from the loop, even at a breaking tension, nevertheless it is not necessary in the instance of clothes lines of the nature above noted owing to the clinging of the rubber compound to the metal, and therefore, while I desire to claim this coiling which would probably be necessary in the instance of a plain wire, I do not wish to be limited in this respect.

Also, the loop need not have spaced ends, but may be closed, like a ring, and therefore the invention is not limited in this respect, and furthermore the invention is not limited to clothes lines, but can be used to secure wire or wire cables.

parts in the several figures hat is claimed is:

1. A metal loop having a gutter in its periphery and spaced openings in the bottom of said gutter, and a line housed Within said gutter and threaded through one opening to the inside of the loop and then through the other opening to the gutter.

2. A construction as in claim 1, further distinguished in that the free end of said line is threaded through the openings as described and then coiled around the main line.

3. A construction as in claim 1, in which the loop has spaced ends.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1 I hereto.

FREDERICK E. BANKWITZ. 

